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...Founder Lenin held that the Communist state would have to exist for many years beside the capitalist states, and therefore that the U. S. S. R. should aim at peaceful co-existence as long as the capitalist countries did not impede or attack her. From the Communist point of view seek peaceful coexistence as a foreign policy while as a political policy the Communist International tried to under mine capitalist governments. That made the capitalist world mistrust everything Russian...
...latest book (Science and Everyday Life) British Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, now editor of London's Daily Worker, told how to cure gastritis: "I had it for about 15 years until I read Lenin and other writers, who showed me what was wrong with our society. . . . Since then I have needed no magnesia...
...tough, one-eyed Herbert Morrison, popular Leader of the London County Council (in effect "Mayor of Greater London"), a Socialist of the same practical stamp as Bevin who keeps in his office a small, framed portrait of Nikolai Lenin, went the job of Churchillizing the new setup. This he did by putting British war industries on a 24-hour production schedule, with twelve-hour shifts, such as are being worked in France and Germany, and sounding off with gruff eloquence: "There is time for nothing now but an intense, concentrated effort of muscle, mind and will. . . . The peace and civilization...
Nothing so maddens Marxists as to have Marxism called a religion (hence by their definition, opium). Nevertheless, Marxism has its bible (Das Kapital), its god (dialectical materialism), its pope (Stalin), saints (Marx, Engels, Lenin), martyrs (Liebknecht, Luxemburg), doctrine (communist "line"). As in other religions, heresies and schisms occasionally crop up. Heretics are sometimes exiled, often handed over to the secular arm (shot), always excommunicated. Most serious heresy in the eyes of Stalinist true believers is Trotskyism, whose heresiarch is Leon Trotsky, now an exile in Mexico. Trotsky's heretical sect styles itself the Fourth International (5,000 communicants). Until...
...them: "To unchain volcanic passions, to cause outbreaks of fury, to set masses of men on the march, to organize hate and suspicion with ice-cold calculation." It was a week, too, in which the President's picture of a good peace was measured against World Revolution as Lenin once presented its tasks-destroying the old order from top to bottom, uprooting the old beliefs, shattering the old traditions, the old moralities, the old customs, atomizing the old system lest its institutions become rallying-points for people who do not like...